I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I had a girlfriend that was so fat her belly button made an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

Naomi Klein

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Adlai Stevenson

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family.

Gus Van Sant

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want more than what most have, then you must do far more than what it is they do.

Stephen Richards

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Rick Moody

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Thomas Fuller